Middle Finger Dunk AI prompt: text-only and video-edit versions, tested
Two prompts for the Middle Finger Dunk: a timed text-only shot list for any AI video tool, and the edit prompt our page runs on its own master take, with why the master comes first and fixes for the glove, the defender and the crowd.
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Star in Middle Finger Dunk with one photo
Make yoursThe text-only prompt
Use this in a video tool that takes a reference photo, with your selfie as @Image1. Ask for 9 seconds, vertical, and no sound; the sound goes on afterwards so it lines up with the cuts.
Middle Finger Dunk, text only, 9 seconds, 9:16, one photo
A vertical 9:16 phone video, exactly 9 seconds, photoreal live action in full natural colour: a one-on-one basketball game at night on an outdoor court under bright floodlights, a red and green court with white lines, a glass backboard on a blue pole, adult spectators behind plain red banners. A slightly handheld camera. WHO: the dunker is the subject in @Image1; the defender is a made-up defender in a plain T-shirt. Each wears exactly what their own photo shows; if a photo shows little of the clothes, a plain T-shirt and plain athletic shorts that suit them. No caps, no hats, no headbands, no wigs, no logos, no numbers, no printed lettering. Hands and wrists are bare: no gloves, wristbands, rings, bracelets or watches. SHOTS: [0-1.5 s] The dunker dribbles past a made-up defender in a plain T-shirt on the court, the camera running alongside. [1.5-4.4 s] Slow motion: the dunker leaps into a wide airborne split right at the rim, the ball in one hand, the other hand held up with the middle finger raised, grinning; the defender watches from the left foreground. [4.4-8.2 s] A cut to behind the defender: the ball drops through the hoop, the dunker lands, then walks straight toward the camera bouncing the ball with one hand and holding the middle finger up to the lens with the other, the whole face visible and grinning. [8.2-9.0 s] A fast whip pan across the court. No split screen, no extra players, no text, logos, numbers or watermarks anywhere. Faces stay consistent from start to end; the whole face stays visible when the hand with the raised finger is up beside it.
The time marks matter more than the description. The split has to start by 1.5 seconds and the cut has to come at 4.4, or the sound and the picture fight.
The edit route our page uses
A text prompt gets the story right and the timing roughly right. To get the timing exact, start from a clip and edit the people in it. We do it in two steps:
- Make a master once: edit the original clip so both players become made-up adults. The original players are real people, and they should never reach your video.
- Edit the master with your selfie. The jump, the finger, the cut and the whip pan stay where they are; only the dunker changes.

This is the edit prompt for step 2, word for word, with our master as @Video1. The clothes it lists are our master’s; change them to whatever your own master shows.
Middle Finger Dunk, edit of the master, one photo
Edit @Video1. It is a 9-second vertical phone video of a one-on-one basketball game at night on an outdoor court under floodlights: [0-4.4 s] one handheld shot that follows the dunker dribbling past the defender, driving to the basket and leaping into a slow-motion airborne split at the rim, ball in one hand and the middle finger of the other hand raised; [4.4-8.2 s] a shot from behind the defender as the ball drops through the hoop, the dunker lands, then walks toward the camera bouncing the ball and holding the middle finger up to the lens; [8.2-9.0 s] a fast whip pan across the court. Replace the complete visible appearance of the dunker, not just the face: face, hair, skin, body, clothes, hands, arms, legs and neck. Nobody they replace may remain recognizable in any frame, before or after the cut. WHO IS WHO, by role in @Video1: - The dunker in the heather-grey T-shirt, who dribbles past the defender, leaps into the split at the rim with the ball in one hand and the middle finger up on the other, lands and walks toward the camera bouncing the ball with the middle finger held up to the lens, becomes the person from @Image1. Face, hair, age, build and clothes come from the photo, nothing from the people they replace. Each wears exactly what their own photo shows; if a photo shows little of the clothes, a plain T-shirt and plain athletic shorts that suit them. No caps, no hats, no headbands, no wigs, no logos, no numbers, no printed lettering. Hands and wrists are bare: no gloves, wristbands, rings, bracelets or watches. Every frame of the jump, the landing and the walk to the camera, from the first frame to the last, is the person from @Image1. These belong only to the people being replaced, never put them on the new people: the heather-grey T-shirt, the navy shorts, the close-cropped black hair and the dark red glove on the raised hand of the dunker. Each new person stays as close to the camera and as large in the frame as the person they replace. The defender stays exactly as in @Video1. No one else steps onto the court and nobody changes places. Keep everything else in @Video1 exactly the same: the framing, the handheld camera movement, the slow motion of the jump, the cut and the whip pan, the timing, the dribble, the drive, the airborne split, the raised middle finger at the rim and to the lens, the ball dropping through the hoop, the landing and the walk toward the camera, the spectators behind the red banners, the night sky, the floodlights, the trees, the green and red court with its white lines, the blue hoop pole, the glass backboard, the orange rim and the white net. No new text, logos or watermarks.
Lay the clip’s sound back on after the edit. If the edit kept the cuts, it lines up on its own.
Fixes from our own test renders
| What you get | Change |
|---|---|
| A dark red glove on the raised hand | It came from the source clip. Name it as something to remove when you make the master; once it’s in the master, a second edit leaves it there |
| A face from the source clip shows through | Ask to replace the complete visible appearance, not just the face: hair, skin, body, clothes, hands and arms too |
| The defender keeps the master’s face and shirt | Expected: the defender is mostly a back. Only swap a role that shows its face for several seconds |
| The new person borrows the old one’s t-shirt or beard | List what belongs only to the person being replaced, and say never to put it on the new one |
| The crowd stays the same | An edit prompt can’t replace the audience. Change it in the master, or leave the small, distant faces as they are |
| The cuts drift from the sound | Edit a clip rather than prompting from scratch, and keep the sound off until the end |
Rather not build a master? The Middle Finger Dunk page has one ready and edits it with your selfie. The clip shot by shot and how to post it.
One Standard video uses 65 credits. The smallest pack that makes one is $9.90 for 90 credits (1 video), a one-time buy whose credits never expire, and plans start at $19.90 a month for 270 credits. If a video fails, its credits come back.
NowStarring is an independent video tool, not linked to the players in the clip the trend copies or the people who filmed and posted it, to TikTok, or to CapCut.
Questions
What prompt makes the Middle Finger Dunk video?
A timed shot list: the dribble, the slow-motion split at the rim with the finger up, a cut to behind the defender, the walk to the camera and a whip pan. Both our prompts are in this guide, word for word.
Should I edit the original clip or write a prompt from scratch?
Editing a clip keeps the jump and the cuts exactly, which a prompt alone rarely does. But the original clip shows real people, so first make a version with made-up players and edit that.
Why does my dunker wear a glove?
If the clip you edit has a glove, a band or a ring on the raised hand, the model tends to keep it. Remove it when you make the made-up version; a later edit won’t get it off.
Can I put two people in it?
You can write it, but the defender is seen mostly from behind, so their face barely shows. In our test the defender stayed the made-up player. Put your effort into the dunker.




